Recommended Reading

The following are some of the books and resources which I have found to be useful throughout my personal and professional journey so far.  Please let me know if there are others you would recommend. Thank you.

RECOMMENDED READING CATEGORIES:

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*The Vision Space Basics*, *Coaching & Leadership*, *Conscious Community*, *Yoga & Pranayama*, *Healing & Personal Development*, *Spirituality*, *The Chakras*, *Emotion Science, New Evolution, Phenomenology & Neurobiology*, *Sense and Sensation*, *Peace and Meditation Practices*, *Right Livelihood and Money*, *Feng Shui*, *Performing, Singing and Movement Education*

 

The Vision Space Basics

 

Coaching & Leadership

Creating the Rest of Your Life, An Atlas for Manifesting Success and Excellence in Life and Work, by Cathy and Gary Hawk

Lights On Leadership, Cathy Hawk and Gary Hawk

Good to Great, Jim Collins

The Toa of Leadership, John Heider

How Full is Your Bucket, Tom Rath & Donald Clifton

First, Break All the Rules, Marcus Buckingham & Curt Coffman

Leadership & Self Deception, The Arbinger Institute

The Five Temptations of a CEO, Patrick Lencioni

 

Conscious Community

Waking the Global Heart, Anodea Judith

The Neighborhood Project, Using Evolution to Improve My City One Block at a Time, David Sloan Wilsom

 

Books from My Own Experience with Health & Nutrition

The Optimum Nutrition Bible, by Patrick Holford

The pH Miracle: Balance Your Diet, Reclaim Your Health, by Robert Young and Shelley Redford Young

The Tao of Detox, The Secrets of Yang-Sheng Dao, by Daniel Reid

Chakra Tonics, Essential Elixirs for the Mind, Body and Spirit, by Elise Marie Collins

Fresh Vegetable and Fruit Juices, by N.D.Walker

The Juicing Bible, by Pat Crocker & Susan Eagles

 

Yoga & Pranayama

The Seven Spiritual Laws of Yoga, A Practical Guide to Healing Body, Mind and Spirit, Deepak Chopra

Yoga Sutras of Pantanjali, Sri Swami Satchitananda

Light on Yoga, BKS Iyengar

Light on Pranayama, The Yogic Art of Breathing, BKS Iyengar

The Heart of Yoga, Developing a Personal Practice, T.K.V. Desikachar

The Healing Power of Intimate Connection, Mark Whitwell

Fierce Medicine, Breakthrough Practices to heal the Body and Ignite the Spirit, Ana T. Forrest

Yoga and the Quest for the True Self, Stephen Cope

The Five Tibetans, Christopher S. Kilham

Ayurveda, The Science of Self Healing, Dr. Vasant Lad

Kundalini, Yoga for the West, Swami Sivananda Radha

Yoga Mala, K. Pattabhi Jois

Moving into Stillness, Erich Shiffman

Moola Bandha, Swami Buddhananada

The Essence of Yoga, Reflections on the Yoga Sutras,  Bernard Bouanchaud

Light on the Sutras of Pantanjali, B.K.S. Iyengar

The Yoga of T. Krishnamacharya, T.K.V. Desikachar

Seven Schools of Yoga, Ernest Wood

Light on Life, B.K.S. Iyengar

Health, Healing & Beyond, The Living Tradition of Krishnamacharya, T.K.V. Desikachar & R. H. Cravens

 

Healing & Personal Development

Start Where You Are, Pema Chodron

Heal Your Body, Louise Hay

Don’t be Nice Be Real, Kelly Bryson

Energy Medicine for Women, Donna Eden

A New Earth, Eckhart Tolle

Dark Side of the Light Chasers, Debbie Ford

The Shadow Effect, Illuminating the True Power of Your Hidden Self, Deepak Chopra, Debbie Ford, Marianne Williamson

Power vs. Force, David Hawkins

The Artist’s Way, Julie Cameron

Unconditional Self Acceptance, Cheri Huber

The Path of Practice, A Woman’s Book of Healing with Food, Breath and Sound, Bri. Maya Tiwari

The New Physics of Healing, Deepak Chopra

The Power of Now, Eckhart Tolle

The Secret of Shambhala, James Redfield

The Four Agreements, Don Miguel Ruiz

The Psychic Protection Handbook, Powerful Protection for Uncertain Times, Caitlin Matthews

 

Spirituality

The Art of Happiness, The Dalai Lama

How to Know God, Deepak Chopra

Conversations with God, Neil Donald Walsh

The Seat of the Soul, Gary Zukav

The Isaiah Effect, Gregg Braden

A Course in Miracles, The Foundation for Inner Peace

There is a Spiritual Solution to Every Problem, Dr. Wayne D. Dwyer

Spiritual Intelligence, the Ultimate Intelligence, Danah Zohar, Dr. Ian Marshall

Sacred Contracts: Awakening Your Divine Potential, Caroline Myss

 

Chakras

Wheels of Life, A Users Guide to the Chakra System, Anodea Judith

Eastern Body Western Mind, Psychology and the Chakra System as a Path to the Self, Anodea Judith

Chakra Balancing, A Workbook and Double CD Set, Anodea Judith

Sevenfold Journey: Reclaiming the Mind Body and Spirit Through the Chakras, Anodea Judith and Selene Vega

Chakras for Beginners, David Pond

The Chakras, C.W. Leadbeater

 

Emotion Science, New Evolution, Phenomenology & Neurobiology

The Emotional Brain, Joseph LeDoux

The Second Brain, Michael Gershon

Molecules of Emotion, Candace Pert

Fear, Gavin Debecker

The Chemistry of Joy, Henry Emmons

The Biology of Belief, Dr. Bruce Lipton

My Stroke of Insight, Jill Bolte Taylor

A Whole New Mind, David Pink

The Mind and the Brain, Swartz and Begley

The Female Brain, Louann Brizendine, M.D.

Power Up Your Brain, The Neuroscience of Enlightenment, David Perlmutter M.D. and Alberto Villoldo PhD.

The Meaning of the Body, Aesthetics of Human Understanding, Mark Johnson

The Neighborhood Project, Using Evolution to Improve My City One Block at a Time, David Sloan Wilsom

 

Sense and Sensation

A Natural History of the Senses, Diane Ackerman

Awakening Intuition, Mona Lisa Shultz

Your Sixth Sense, Bellaruth Naparstek

SQ Connecting With Our Spiritual Intelligence, Danah Zohar & Dr. Ian Marshall

The Highly Sensitive Person, Elaine Aaron

 

Peace and Meditation Practices

When Things Fall Apart, Pema Chodron

Thoughts Without A Thinker, Mark Epstein

The Prophet, Kahlil Gibran

I Heard God Laughing, Renderings of Hafez, Daniel Ladinsky

 

Right Livelihood & Money

The Power of Intention, Dr. Wayne W. Dyer

Callings, Gregg Levoy

True Work, Justin & Michael Toms

The E-Myth Revisited, Gerber

The Energy of Money, Maria Nemeth

The Experience Economy, Pine & Gilmore

The Tipping Point, Malcolm Gladwell

Seven Life Lessons of Chaos, Briggs & Peat

Creating Affluence, Deepak Chopra

The Rise of the Creative Class, Richard Florida

 

Feng Shui

The Western Guide to Feng Shui, Terah Kathryn Collins

Clear Your Clutter with Feng Shui, Karen Kingston


Performing, Singing and Movement Education

The Expressive Actor, Michael Luggering

Impro, Keith Johnstone

Movement for Actors, edited by Nicole Potter

Making Connections, Peggy Hackney

As Others See Us, Ellen Goldman

The Expressive Body in Life, Art and Therapy, Daria Halprin

The Right to Speak, Working with the Voice, Patsy Rodenburg

Writing Down the Bones, Natalie Goldberg

Games for Actors and Non Actors, Augusto Boal

And Then You Act, Anne Bogart

The Use of the Self, F.M.Alexander

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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